A retired Greek police officer has admitted to strangling his six-year-old daughter in Athens, Greek national news agency AMNA reported on Friday.

The 61-year-old suspect will be led before a prosecutor, police said, after the discovery of the girl's body in a plastic bag inside a rubbish bin near the family's home on Thursday night.

The father had reported the girl's disappearance to the local police station on Thursday morning where he had initially claimed that after leaving the house for a few minutes, he returned to find it in disorder and his daughter missing.

He feared an abduction of the 6-year-old who had walking difficulties, he said in his first testimony, according to police.

On Thursday evening he confessed that he had held too tight the girl in his embrace and she died, police sources told AMNA.

According to the police sources, the retired police officer is "in a state of shock, has psychological problems and was receiving medication for depression".

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